God's Eyes

Jason´s mind was somewhere else because he still thought about the color radiating from the Jade Iron bar in front of him, but Shane´s words made sense, and he doubted there would be someone who could do everything perfectly without failing a single time.

Coming back to his sense, Jason considered it obvious that he would have to learn out of his mistakes, which he would definitely make in the future.

Learning how to make a perfect jade iron bar was the first step Jason had to go in order to become a renowned Blacksmith.

He wasn't sure if he wanted to become a high-ranked blacksmith, alchemist, and runemaster, but it was definitely a huge advantage to know about all lifestyle occupations to a certain degree.

The biggest advantage would be that being a high-ranked lifestyle Artisan could generate a lot of credits and star notes, as long as one was diligent, while his mana control would increase inevidently with his practice.

Furthermore, Jason´s trust in weapons and protective garments made by someone else, he didn't even know couldn´t be considered extraordinary high.

If a weapon broke during a fight, death was the only outcome and this was not something Jason wanted to happen.

Thanks to his mana eyes, he could see that his tempered jade iron daggers durability worsened with each day passing and it was only fortunately, that he didn't have to go out and hunt beasts right now, otherwise he would purchase a few daggers in order to be rather safe than dead.

But even so, the mid-grade-1 tempered daggers Jason was using at the moment, were not strong enough to pierce through the hide of peak awakened beasts even less evolved ranked beasts.

As such, Jason would have to make himself a weapon as soon as possible, the higher its grade, the better.

It was even possible to make a grade-2 weapon with grade-1 materials as long as it was purified enough, releasing 100% of the material's potential.

Furthermore, with runes inscribed on it, Jason would be able to improve the sharpness and endurance of his weapon, adding another layer towards the weapons he made by himself.

In the end, Jason was confident in producing a pseudo mana weapon with jade iron ore, as long as he had enough time.

With Jade Iron as sole ingredients, it was impossible to forge a mana weapon, while adding certain ores and other ingredients would allow him to forge a mana weapon, which was one of Jason´s dreams.

Who wouldn't want to forge a powerful weapon allowing him to increase his combat prowess by a large margin, turning the tides in a battle even though he would normally be considered weaker?

Learning the path of a Blacksmith and runemaster were intertwined with each other as long as Jason wanted to manufacture a mana weapon by himself.

One of Jason´s small dreams was to manufacture an extremely strong weapon, allowing him to shatter mountains like he had heard from fairy tales when he was young.

What he was extremely curious about, were soul weapons and how exactly they were crafted and so on, but unfortunately, the theoretical books he received from Shane and Dalia weren't much of a help for this theme.

Jason thought Shane and Dalia wanted to wait with this information for later until he reached a certain threshold, which wasn´t that problematic.

Even if he knew how to craft a soul weapon, he would still have to learn the basics.

As such, Jason summoned a small mountain of Jade Iron ores which fell to the ground next to him.

Lifting up a large piece, he went to the extinguished forge, while Shane stepped back without saying anything at all.

Shane would just observe everything carefully and he decided to explain Jason´s mistakes after every failure.

He calmed himself down before the black origin flame appeared within his hand.

Leading the flame slowly towards the forge, Jason activated his mana eyes directly in order to follow every step he imprinted into his mind perfectly.

At least that´s what Jason wanted to do, as he heated up the flame to the temperature that was required to mold the Jade Iron ore.

Noticing the oxide reacting with the limestone within the forge, Jason took the reduced jade iron out of the forge, before he led his mana within the sizzling hot jade iron mold.

Only a few seconds passed and he was already sweating buckets when he noticed that moving the impurities around was much more difficult than he previously imagined.

Forcefully injecting his mana into the jade iron mold, Jason noticed that the difficulty increased further, the more time passed, while the mold cooled down.

Jason was confused and only noticed that the jade iron was cooled down when he was unable to move the impurities by a single millimeter.

Feeling extremely stupid, Jason cursed to himself 'The impurities can only be moved out of the ore, as long as it's hot enough.'

Heating up the Jade-iron once again, Jason increased his origin flames temperature by a few degrees, as he injected his mana once again into the Jade-iron.

This time it was much easier to lead the impurities out of the jade iron, as he once again increased the heat of his flame with ambition gleaming in his eyes.

Unfortunately, Jason forgot to control his black origin flame and increased the temperature to high, immediately destroying the mana veins within the jade iron, turning it into scrap.

Gazing at the scrap in front of him Jason frowned deeply, as he took out the next jade iron ore, giving it another try because he couldn´t accept his failure.

Shane didn´t even correct Jason´s mistakes as he seemed to have noticed them by himself.

Working with a lower temperature was possible but it would waste a high amount of mana due to the increased difficulty and even more so was it a waste of time.

Meanwhile using a high temperature was much faster but the temperature wasn't allowed to cross a certain range, otherwise, the ore would slowly due to the damaged mana veins.

In the recent era, everything had mana, and forging a weapon with burned mana veins was even worse than forging a gradeless weapon, as the enhancement of mana within weapons kept them alive.

Injecting mana into one´s weapons would not only enhance the weapon's sharpness, endurance, toughness but even more important was the fact that a weapon with high mana conductivity could feel like an extension of the wielder's body.

Having a low mana conductivity meant in return, that one wouldn't feel connected to the weapon, and the smoothness of all kinds of moves was restricted.

Mana veins were everything and the purer they were, the higher was the enhancement from the injected mana which included the feeling of moving one´s body instead of a cold weapon used to kill.

Jason was extremely fascinated by all the theoretical knowledge implanted into his mind and he wanted to get to know the feeling of a perfectly purified ingot while comparing it to a rough product in order to figure out more about the significance of purification, as it included everything Jason got to know over the last few months.